Also known as Faldeo sur de Valle Hermoso
Where: Chubut, Argentina (45.8° S, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 48.3° S, 58.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sarmiento Formation, Casamayoran (55.8 - 48.0 Ma)
• Casamayoran, Middle-Late Eocene (Woodburne et al. 2014).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Juan Carlos Quiroga; Kirk Johnson in 1982; 1991; reposited in the MLP
Primary reference: B. Vera. 2012. Revisión del género Transpithecus Ameghino, 1901 (Notoungulata, Interatheriidae) del Eoceno medio de Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana 49(1):60-74 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176491: authorized by Jelle Zijlstra, entered by Jelle Zijlstra on 14.02.2016, edited by Terri Cleary, Philip Mannion, Miranta Kouvari and Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Transpithecus obtentus Ameghino 1901 notoungulate MLP 82-V-1-49a, maxillary P1-M3; 82-V-1-49b, M2; 83-III-1-39, maxillary P4-m2; 83-III-1-46, dentary p2-3; 83-III-1-57, p3, p4, m1, m2, m3; 83-III-1-76, maxillary P2-M3; 83-III-1-91, dentary p2-m3; MLP 83-III-103a, P4; MPEF-PV 1114, P2-M3, i3?, p2-p4, m2-3, p2, p4-m3
Notopithecus adapinus5 Ameghino 1897 notoungulate MLP 83-III-1-87, MLP 83-III-1-96, MLP 83-III-1- 100, and MPEF-PV 1113
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Reptilia | |
Chubutophis grandis n. gen. n. sp.1
Chubutophis grandis n. gen. n. sp.1 Albino 1993 boa MLP 83-III-1-150 (holotype), almost complete trunk vertebra
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